Every year WOSU TV kicks off the month of March with our longest membership drive of the year. We’ve got lots of great specials planned over the next three weeks we’ll hope you’ll check out. For music lovers there is quite a variety of great programming; GREAT BROADWAY MUSICAL MOMENTS FROM THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW, [...]

The competition is quickly coming to its conclusion, only two more episodes left. Tonight it’s the semi-finals and its serious business as the bakers take on patisserie. First challenge baklava, the theme tonight seems to be layers. In the technical task the bakers are tasked with creating the German schichttorte. A pastry cooked in stages under [...]

It’s hard to pick out just one program to profile this week, so let’s do a quick look through the week. Sunday- Columbus Neighborhoods: Bexley Another blockbuster Sunday night on WOSU TV and it all begins with the premiere of COLUMBUS NEIGHBORHOODS: BEXLEY. The newest installment in the COLUMBUS NEIGHBORHOODS series, Bexley started as two [...]

Love is in the air Friday night on SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED. This week we uncover two of Shakespeare’s most dynamic couples, Anthony & Cleopatra and Romeo & Juliet. Kim Cattrall takes us into the world of Anthony & Cleopatra. Cattrall, having played the role of Cleopatra twice, meets other actresses who have brought Shakespeare’s Egyptian Queen [...]

A CIA employee (probably O.B. Harnage) helps Vietnamese evacuees onto an Air America helicopter from the top of 22 Gia Long Street, a half mile from the U.S. Embassy. (Copyright Bettmann/Corbis / AP Images)

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Sneak peek! Now through Saturday, 2/7, stream the @American Experience Oscar®-nominated film “Last Days in Vietnam” online before it airs. From filmmaker Rory Kennedy, the film recounts the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon. Watch it now: www.pbs.org/lastdaysinvietnam . The film premieres on WOSU TV Tuesday, [...]

In August 1910, a massive wildfire swept across the Northern Rockies, burning more than three million acres in 36 hours. At the time the Department of Agriculture’s new U.S. Forest Service had only been managing the countries “forest reserves” for five years. The management of the “forest reserves” was the responsibility of the Department of the Interior [...]

A quick update for all you DOC MARTIN fans. When the New York Times asked Martin Clunes, who plays Doctor Martin Ellingham, about a season 7 of DOC MARTIN he replied “The show will shoot a seventh season in 2015″, but he added ”As much as I’d love to keep on doing it, I just don’t [...]

Last week NOVA chronicled the salvage of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. This week NOVA takes on the growing phenomena of sinkholes. You may remember the story of the gentleman in Florida who was asleep in his bedroom when a sinkhole opened up beneath the house swallowing half the house and killing him. And everyone [...]

Prospective Ohio drivers would see added training requirements and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles would be allowed to accept credit and debit cards under a state transportation budget that easily cleared the Ohio House on Tuesday.